Festival returns after two year Covid-19 hiatus with Dermot Kennedy, Arctic Monkeys, Tame Impala

With 70,000 expected attendees, this year’s festival is set to be its largest on record

Join international guests and our top journalists for four nights of debate and discussion

Dublin-born DJ bids tearful farewell to the station after working there for 17 years

Dubliner, whose first novel is due in May, will still host Changes with Annie Macmanus podcast

Organiser Melvin Benn ‘not worried’ about coronavirus ‘at all. I’m full steam ahead’

RTÉ R&B and hiphop DJ speaks of on-air nerves, social media and ethics of branding

Women are under-represented in the Irish music industry, but a change is gonna come

The Dublin rapper thinks about performance beyond the microphone in his hand

Series to screen performances and interviews from the maiden Ballina event

Warts’n’all pop with acerbic lyrics and steady progression down the years? Yes please

The band beat acts including Arctic Monkeys and Lily Allen to take this year’s prize

London’s Irish community get ready for a blast of Ed Sheeran

Donal Dineen’s ‘Pathways’ highlights success of 10 very different creatives living abroad

Liam Gallagher, Annie Mac and full line up, stage times, transport directions and more – and enjoy the music

Here’s the second tranche of stage times for the Stradbally festival

Electric Picnic is all about those perfect moments of music and madness in Stradbally. So which songs, stages and Picnic slices are our writers looking forward to?

The xx, Duran Duran and Chaka Khan headline this year’s sold-out festival

Comments come after Electric Picnic sells out in less than five minutes, ahead of lineup announcement

The first tranche of acts is announced hours after the festival sells out